The below selections are chosen to facilitate radiant exploration beyond the view presented in this collection of essays. I’ve encountered a huge amount of written material over the course of my life; what is here is what is readily available to my memory, retroactively categorized into topics.
These selections are chosen as portals. No more than one work per author, with emphasis on the lesser known. People might very well dispute the accuracy of the loglines; to be expected: they are resonances of my recollected experience, not necessarily accurate representations.
Some of these items are very hard to find. That is regrettable.
Physicality
Body-Flow: Freedom from Fear-Reactivity - Scott Sonnon: a very basic practice exploring feeling and the body.
Intuitive Körporabeit (Intuitive Bodywork) - Loil Noidhöfer: the essence of feeling as a body.
Emotional Anatomy: The Structure of Experience - Stanley Keleman: perhaps completely theoretically incorrect, yet ponder the instruction found in gazing at the images.
Moving Being - Khandro Déchen: relating the body to spiritual activity.
Breath, Sleep, The Heart, And Life - Pundit Acharya: gentling the body into everyday life.
Relationality
Improv Wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up - Patricia Ryan Madson: the basics of relational activity between people in everyday circumstances
WWF of the 1980's: a demonstration of adversarial intimacy
Liberating Intimacy - Peter D. Hershock: entering into participatory relationality, as opposed to subject-object relationality
The Whole Seed Catalog - Baker Creek Seeds: plant a garden, cultivate something unlike you’ve seen before, relate to very different forms of life
Monsieur Hulot's Holiday - Jacques Tati: notice the deep relationality demonstrated here in the midst of complete awkwardness and unsureness.
Contribution
The Whole Earth Catalog - Stewart Brand: There were multiple editions. A portal with a thousand paths. Consider Cybernetics.
Leadership - Werner Erhard: The technology of leadership.
In the Cells of the Eggplant - David Chapman: the basics of meta-rationality.
Rising Up and Rising Down - William T. Vollmann: Violence as contribution.
The Vorrh - B. Catling: contribution can get lost in a vortex of disorientation.
Everyday Life
Getting Things Done - David Allen: the possibility of getting things done.
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo: the call to relate intimately to the built environment.
With Consent: Parenting for All to Win - Jan Fortune-Wood: a distinct parenting approach.
Fellini Satyricon - Fredrico Fellini: life can be on a foundation completely foreign to contemporary norms.
2666 - Roberto Bolaño: life is can be an interwoven mandala.
Thought
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity - Richard Rorty: a deconstructive recapitulation of the Western tradition.
A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari: a poetic recapitulation of the Western tradition
The Golden Age - by Michal Ajvaz: the same book as A Thousand Plateaus, but as a fable
Essays - Cicero: a model of clarity in thought.
The Frank Book - Jim Woodring: an exemplar of taking things in stride.
Searchless Responsiveness
The Holy Mountain - Alejandro Jodorowsky: what is looks like to take existence as a landscape of exploration.
The Basket of Tolerance - Adi Da: a comprehensive review of the tradition of spirituality.
The Myth of Unhappiness - Bruce Di Marsico: Existential therapy at its finest.
Opening Awareness - Charlie Awbery: the simplest foundational practice.
Dzogchen in Practice - Keith Dowman: practice manuals for a tradition resonant with Searchless Responsiveness
Codex Seraphinianus - Luigi Serafini: what does it mean? I don’t know. That’s the point.