Recommended Reading List

In this current Digital Age of information overload, many are beginning to understand the need to return to more traditional avenues of gathering knowledge. We need a more patient method than the compulsive scrolling of the screen and endless headlines; a “deep reading” which books are designed to impart, as well as a broadened sense of empathy if read voraciously and open-mindedly. Books give us access to much that the internet and social media has not been able to replace. More often than not, people who want to explore the world of books to gain a deeper understanding of our world, of themselves, and life in general, simply don’t know where to start. These are some of our personal recommendations, many of which we will discuss and mention on the show at some point.

(This page is still a work in progress, and will be updated and added to periodically.)

Politics, Pathocracy, Totalitarianism

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race, and Identity - Douglas Murray

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture - Heather MacDonald

The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Gad Saad

The Origins of Totalitarianism - Hannah Arendt

The Gulag Archipelago - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl

Violent American Century: War and Terror Since World War II - John W. Dower

Defying Hitler: A Memoir - Sebastian Haffner

Art and History

Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America (America: a cultural history, Volume I) - David Hackett Fischer

Washington’s Crossing - David Hackett Fischer

Literature and Poetry

1984 - George Orwell

Animal Farm - George Orwell

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain

Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky

Notes from the Underground - Dostoyevsky

One Day In the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Neuromancer - William Gibson

Snow Crash - Neil Stephenson

Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

Frankenstein - Mary Shelly

True Grit - Charles Portis

To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick

Ubik - Philip K. Dick

Valis - Philip K Dick

The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran

The Collected Works of William Blake

Psychology and Psychiatry

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos - Jordan B. Peterson

Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life - Jordan B. Peterson

Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes - Andrzej Lobaczewski

Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us - Robert Hare

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work - Robert Hare and Paul Babiak

The Mask of Sanity: An Attempt To Clarify Some Issues About The So-Called Psychopathic Personality - Hervey Cleckley

Predators: Pedophiles, Rapists, And Other Sex Offenders - Anna Salter

The Sociopath Next Door - Martha Stout

The Paranoia Switch: How Terror Rewires Our Brains and Reshapes Our Behavior and How We Can Reclaim Our Courage - Martha Stout

The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind - Gustave Le Bon

Propaganda - Edward Bernays

Philosophy, Esotericism, Comparative Religion

Shamanism - Mircea Eliade

Cosmos and History - Mircea Eliade

The Sacred and the Profane - Mircea Eliade

The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Manly P. Hall

The Secret History of the World and How to Get Out Alive - Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu

The Sufi Path of Knowledge: Ibn Al-Arabi's Metaphysics of Imagination - William Chittick

The Active Side of Infinity - Carlos Castaneda

The Fire from Within - Carlos Castaneda

Fulcanelli: His True Identity Revealed - Patrick Riviere

The Mystery of the Cathedrals - Fulcanelli

The Dwellings of the Philosophers - Fulcanelli

The Zelator - David Ovason

In Search of the Miraculous - P.D. Ouspensky

Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson: All and Everything, First Series - G.I. Gurdjieff

Meetings With Remarkable Men: All and Everything, Second Series - G.I. Gurdjieff

Life is Real Only Then, When “I Am”: All and Everything, Third Series - G.I. Gurdjieff

Herald of the Coming Good - G.I. Gurdjieff

Gurdjieff and Hypnosis: A Hermeneutic Study - Mohammad Tamdgidi

UFOs, Paranormal, Parapsychology

The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry - J. Allen Hynek

High Strangeness: Hyperdimensions and the Process of Alien Abduction - Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults - Jacques Vallee

Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers - Jacques Vallee

UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941-1973 - Richard Dolan

UFOs and the National Security State, Book 2: The Cover-up Exposed, 1973-1991 - Richard Dolan

Operation Trojan Horse - John Keel

The Mothman Prophecies - John Keel

The Eighth Tower: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum - John Keel

The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth about Extraterrestrial life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt - Picknet and Prince

The Gods of Eden - William Bramley

Health, Fitness, Self-Defense, Martial Arts

Meditations on Violence: A Comparison of Martial Arts Training & Real World Violence - Rory Miller

Facing Violence: Preparing for the Unexpected - Rory Miller

Deadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense - Massad Ayoob

Championship Fighting - Jack Dempsey

Benjamin Franklin’s Book of Virtues

Economics

Basic Economics - Thomas Sowell

Biography and Memoir

Bruce Lee: A Life - Matthew Polly

Amazing Grace - Laura Knight-Jadczyk

Comics and Graphic Novels

Watchmen
V for Vendetta
Light of Thy Countenance
Transmetropolitan
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