Psi and the Anomalous
The Cartographer
Contemplative Neuroscience
The Emotional Life of Your Brain
The Hard Problem
What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Seed Sovereignty
The Monopolist's Philanthropy
On Rockefeller, Gates, and the Psychology of Sincere Enclosure
Information Theory
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
On Claude Shannon, the Bit, and the Cosmos That Turned Out to Be Made of Information
The Frankfurt School
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
On Walter Benjamin, the Aura That Withers, and What Is Lost When Everything Becomes a Copy
The Suppressed Gnosis
The Nag Hammadi Library
On the Buried Jars, the Burned Books, and the Tradition That Survived Its Own Destruction
Buddhism
The Original Teaching
On the Four Noble Truths and the Path That Leads Through Suffering
McKenna
True Hallucinations
On the Experiment at La Chorrera, the genesis of the Timewave from a psychedelic revelation in the Amazon, and what McKenna understood himself to have discovered in February 1971
The Films
The Screen as Sacred Space
On cinema as the inheritor of the sacred image tradition — how the darkened theater, the projected light, and the collective suspension of ordinary consciousness replicate the conditions of ancient initiatory rites
The Writers
The Word That Burns the Hand
On William Blake, Walt Whitman, and W.B. Yeats as initiatory writers — poets who received a visionary payload and spent their lives finding a language adequate to transmit it
Flow and Peak Experience
Flow
On Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's discovery of optimal experience, the challenge-skill balance that produces absorption, and what it means to find an activity worth doing for its own sake