 | Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.80 Socratic dialogue based novel--read it & you'll never live in western civ the same way.
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 | The Story of B by Daniel Quinn
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $3.52 Continues to expose the ugly assumptions we assume are as normal as water is to a fish.
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 | My Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $5.89 If you aren't squirming enough from the other Quinn books, read this one!
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 | The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future by Riane Eisler
Buy new: $13.67 / Used from: $0.01 Controversial, but well documented. Points out that we don't have to live this way. We used to live as partners.
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 | The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning by Riane Eisler
Buy used from: $16.09 Walks a group through The Chalice and the Blade in 9 simple (but not always easy) sessions.
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 | The Monkey Wrench Gang (Perennial Classics) by Edward Abbey
Buy used from: $0.98 A bunch of sociopaths work their way through the southwest, keeping the world wild & impeding the "progress" of the korporate overlords. Inspired Earth First!
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 | Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $7.49 How might we live sustainably? Callenbach visions it in this novel.
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 | Ecotopia Emerging by Ernest Callenbach
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $3.96 And how might Ecotopia come about? Another Callenbach vision.
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 | The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.56 Politico-spiritual post-apocalyptic fantasy. Challenges where we might go if we continue to consume as relentlessly as we have been.
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 | Dreaming the Dark : Magic, Sex, and Politics by Starhawk
Buy new: $13.68 / Used from: $1.16 One of the most important books I've ever read. Ties in depth psychology, spirituality, political action, group dynamics, and a whole lot more.
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 | The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan by Robert Shea
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $4.75 A paradigm shift in one package. Reading this has the psychic effect of at least one LSD trip, maybe more. You'll not be the same after you finish.
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 | Cosmic Trigger I : Final Secret of the Illuminati by Robert A. Wilson
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $8.66 Illuminatus meets biography. Intense, wild, speculative, construct challenging self-history.
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 | Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.11 Challenged me when I was 14. Then again when I was nearly 23 and stayed home from church to read it. Still challenges me every couple years when I reread it.
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 | The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.29 A novel about intelligence & revolution. Heinlein reflects Ortega y Gasset's philosophy, contrasting the "man of excellence" with "mass man." The air we breathe ISN'T free after all!
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 | The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace by M. Scott Peck
Buy new: $11.70 / Used from: $2.98 Don't go it alone. Build community. A third, and perhaps the most important, book on the processes of community building.
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