Works I have read
I have read the books listed below myself. Some have inspired me; others have raised questions or met with resistance on my part. Their inclusion does not imply agreement with everything they say. The publication details refer to the editions listed here, not necessarily to the copies I read at the time.
Philosophy, language and questioning knowledge
- Bergson, Henri. L’Évolution créatrice. Félix Alcan, 1907. English title: Creative Evolution.
- Deleuze, Gilles, & Félix Guattari. Rhizoom. Spreeuw, libertarian publisher, 1977.
- Feyerabend, Paul. Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge. New Left Books, 1975.
- Spencer-Brown, G. Laws of Form. George Allen & Unwin, 1969.
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922. German–English edition, with an introduction by Bertrand Russell.
Natural science, cosmology and perception
- Gleiser, Marcelo. A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe. Free Press, 2010.
- Hertog, Thomas. On the Origin of Time. Bantam, 2023.
- Hoffman, Donald. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
- Lanza, Robert, Matej Pavšič & Bob Berman. The Grand Biocentric Design: How Life Creates Reality. BenBella Books, 2021.
- Maturana, Humberto R., & Francisco J. Varela. The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding. Translated by Robert Paolucci. Revised edition. Shambhala, 1992.
- Morrison, Philip, & Phylis Morrison, with the Office of Charles and Ray Eames. Powers of Ten: A Book about the Relative Size of Things in the Universe and the Effect of Adding Another Zero. Scientific American Library, distributed by W. H. Freeman, 1982.
- Rovelli, Carlo. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity. Translated from the Italian by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. Allen Lane, 2016.
- Sagan, Carl. Cosmos. Random House, 1980.
The search for coherence: science, humanity and spirituality
- Reiser, Oliver L. Cosmic Humanism: A Theory of the Eight-Dimensional Cosmos Based on Integrative Principles from Science, Religion, and Art. Schenkman Publishing Company, 1966.
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Le Milieu divin: Essai de vie intérieure. Éditions du Seuil, 1957. English title: The Divine Milieu.
- Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre. Le Phénomène humain. Éditions du Seuil, 1955. English titles: The Phenomenon of Man and, in a later translation, The Human Phenomenon.
Spirituality, direct experience and nonduality
- Astin, John. This Is Always Enough. Non-Duality Press, 2007.
- Corrigan, James M. An Introduction to Awareness. BookSurge Publishing, 2006.
- Gross, Eric. Liberation from the Lie: Cutting the Roots of Fear Once and for All. BookSurge Publishing, 2009.
- Harding, Douglas E. On Having No Head: A Contribution to Zen in the West. The Buddhist Society, 1961. Later revised editions appeared with the subtitle Zen and the Rediscovery of the Obvious.
- Norquist, Steven. Haunted Universe: The True Knowledge of Enlightenment. Revised edition. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010.
- Parsons, Tony. The Open Secret. Originally published in 1995; revised in 2011.
- Poe, Salvadore. Liberation IS: The End of the Spiritual Path. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016.
- Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree (Osho). My Way: The Way of the White Clouds. Grove Press, 1979. First Evergreen edition, based on talks given in May 1974.
- Saltzman, Robert. Depending on No-Thing. New Sarum Press, 2019.
- Saltzman, Robert. The Ten Thousand Things. New Sarum Press, 2017.
- Sengupta, Shiv. Advaitaholics Anonymous: Sobering Insights for Spiritual Addicts. New Sarum Press, 2020.
- Tarthang Tulku. Time, Space, and Knowledge: A New Vision of Reality. Dharma Publishing, 1977.
- Tollifson, Joan. Nothing to Grasp. Non-Duality Press, 2012.
- Tollifson, Joan. Painting the Sidewalk with Water: Talks and Dialogues about Nonduality. Non-Duality Press, 2010.
- Warren, Miranda. This Terrible Love: A Nonduality Dreamlife. Self-published, 2022.
Science fiction and cosmic imagination
- Stapledon, Olaf. Last and First Men. Methuen, 1930.
- Stapledon, Olaf. Star Maker. Methuen, 1937.
Further reading related to Dioramics
The works below address themes related to Dioramics. They are listed here as further reading, rather than as sources I have personally read or influences from which Dioramics developed.
Experience and the lifeworld
- Husserl, Edmund. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology. On the relationship between scientific abstractions and the lived world.
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. Phenomenology of Perception. On perception as bodily engagement with a world.
- Schutz, Alfred, & Thomas Luckmann. The Structures of the Life-World. On the structure of everyday experience and the shared social world.
Plurality and worldmaking
- James, William. A Pluralistic Universe. An inquiry into plurality without fitting it into a single, all-encompassing whole in advance.
- Goodman, Nelson. Ways of Worldmaking. On the ways descriptions and symbolic systems organise worlds.
Knowledge and reality
- Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. On scientific frameworks and shifts in what counts as a meaningful problem, evidence or solution.
- Hacking, Ian. The Social Construction of What?. A critical clarification of the concept of ‘social construction’ and the diverse claims made in its name.
Embodiment and engagement
- Varela, Francisco J., Evan Thompson & Eleanor Rosch. The Embodied Mind. On the connection between embodiment, cognition and experience.
Language and meaning
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. On meaning in language use and the philosophical confusion that can arise when words are detached from their use.
Interpretation, identity and ethics
- Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self. On the connections between identity, moral frameworks and historical backgrounds.