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The Mind and Its Depths – $285

  The mind as it is manifested in philosophy and art, in the moral life and psychoanalysis, has always been at the core of Richard Wollheim‘s celebrated work. This book brings together Wollheim’s broad...

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The Island of the Colorblind – $225

  “An explorer of that most wondrous of islands, the human brain,” writes D.M. Thomas in The New York Times Book Review, “Oliver Sacks also loves the oceanic kind of islands.” Both kinds figure...

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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is...

The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account...

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Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom – $325

  Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else’s. Then they used their minds to change their brains in ways that changed history.With the...

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The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self – $275

  This is a radical rethinking of the nature of consciousness. “The Ego Tunnel“, a major work from one of the brightest of the new generation of philosophers of mind, proposes a simple yet radical...

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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes – $425

  No fictional character is more renowned for his powers of thought and observation than Sherlock Holmes. But is his extraordinary intellect merely a gift of fiction, or can we learn to cultivate these...

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Distant Mental Influence: Its Contributions to Science, Healing, and Human...

  William Braud, Ph.D., is a highly regarded researcher in the field of transpersonal psychology, and “Distant Mental Influence” represents twenty years of his original thinking and experiments. A...

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The Doors Of Perception: Heaven and Hell - $275

In 1952 Aldous Huxley became involved in the now legendary experiment to clinically detail the physiological and psycho-logical effects of the little known drug used by Mexican and Native American...

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Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior - $265

Over the past two decades of neurological research, it has become increasingly clear that the way we experience the world–our perception, behavior, memory, and social judgment–is largely driven by the...

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The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime – $425

Why do some innocent kids grow up to become cold-blooded serial killers? Is bad biology partly to blame? For more than three decades Adrian Raine has been researching the biological roots of violence...

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Consciousness and the Absolute: The Final Talks of Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj –...

If you have read “I Am That”, these books will round out your understanding of the philosophy. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj is one of those rare individuals who had truly undergone a radical...

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Mind Training: The Great Collection – $745

  The Tibetan practice of “mind training,” or lojong, stretches back for hundreds of years and encompasses a variety of techniques for cultivating altruistic thoughts and coping with the inevitable...

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Breaking Convention: Essays on Psychedelic Consciousness – $445

  A multidimensional trip into psychedelic consciousness, science and culture. Topics covered range from Neolithic worldviews, prehistoric rituals and Amerindian epistemology to weaponized...

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Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction...

Unlock your mind From the bestselling authors of Thinking, Fast and Slow; The Black Swan; and Stumbling on Happiness comes a cutting-edge exploration of the mysteries of rational thought,...

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An Unquiet Mind: Picador Classic – $295

‘It stands alone in the literature of manic depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.’ Oliver Sacks I was used to my mind being my best friend. Now, all of a sudden, my mind had turned on me:...

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Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking – $385

Scientific and philosophical concepts can change the way we solve problems by helping us to think more effectively about our behavior and our world. Surprisingly, despite their utility, many of these...

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