Recommended Reading

CONTENTS:   Fascinating Reading to Stimulate Your Imagination
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Warren Z. Weinstein  --  Philosophy and Asian Studies Departments
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CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT

Covey, Stephen, Seven Habits of Highly Effective Prople; Character development for effective living.

Peck, M. Scott, Road Less Traveled; Tips on achieving psychological maturity.
 

GENDER ISSUES AND RELATIONSHIPS

Farrell, Warren, Myth of Male Power; Gender conditioning and its effects on men.

Farrell, Warren, Why Men are the Way They Are; How gender conditioning pervades popular culture.

Goldberg, Herb, Inner Male; Helping men get free of harmful myths about masculinity.

Hendrix, Harville, Getting the Love You Want; Why we're attracted to certain people -- for couples.

Hendrix, Harville, Keeping the Love You Find; Why we're attracted to certain people -- for singles.

Harding, M. Ester, The Way of All Women; Psychological look at the feminine.

Harding, M. Ester, Woman's Mysteries; The feminine principle in myth, stories, and dreams

Johnson, Robert A., He; Masculine psychology and the myth of Parsifal.

Johnson, Robert A., Inner Work: Using Dreams...; Learning to remember and interpret dreams.

Johnson, Robert A., She; Feminine psychology and the myth of Psyche and Eros.

Johnson, Robert A., We; Psychology of romantic love and the myth of Tristan and Isolde.

Moir, Anne and Jessel, David, Brain Sex; Gender differences in brain physiology and behavior.
 

MYSTICISM

Bolen, Jean, The Tao of Psychology: Synchronicity and the Self; Mystical themes from a Jungian perspective.

Buber, Martin, The Way of Man; Lessons in life from Jewish mysticism.

De Mello, Anthony, The Way to Love; Meditations of a Catholic mystic.

Gibran, Kahlil, The Prophet; Lessons in life from Islamic mysticism.

Govinda, Anagarika, The Way of the White Clouds: A Buddhist Pilgrim in Tibet; Travels in Tibetan mysticism.

Herrigel, Eugen, Zen in the Art of Archery; Westerner seeks lessons in Zen wisdom.

Hesse, Hermann, Siddhartha; A story of the Buddha.

Lao Tsu, Tao Te Ching; Lessons in life from a Chinese mystic.

Ouspensky, P.D, In Search of the Miraculous; Westerner meets Armenian mystic.

Steinsaltz, Adin, The Thirteen Petalled Rose; Lectures about Jewish mysticsm.

Weiss, Brian, Many Lives, Many Masters; Scientist encounters evidence of reincarnation.

Yogananda, Paramahansa, Autobiography of a Yogi; Hindu mystic who came to the West.
 

SCIENCE

Baker, Robin, Sperm Wars; Evolutionary biologist looks at love and lust, with insights into why we do what we do.

Callanan, Maggie, and Kelley, Patricia, Final Gifts; Insights into death and dying from two hospice nurses.

Gribbin, John, Schrodinger's Kittens and the Search for Reality ; Quantum mysteries set in historical context.

Koestler, Arthur, Case of the Midwife Toad; Scientific prejudice and genetics.

Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert, Inherit the Wind; Evolution and the Scope's Monkey Trial.

Lindley, David, Where Does the Weirdness Go?; Quantum reality investigated in non-technical lanugage.

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