For the past few years, I’ve been moving toward a new mode of thinking, as evidenced by my reading list. Since late high school, I’ve become well versed in things like Machiavelli, Sun-Tzu, Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Noam Chomsky, Marx and Engels, Trotsky, stuff like that.

Now I’m shifting towards what some scientists and scholars are calling “The New Paradigm.” It’s complex but rational. It’s scientific yet esoteric. Mostly, though, it’s fascinating and, at times, completely terrifying.

Systems thinking, chaos theory, complexity theory, quantum physics, evolutionary biology, consciousness, psychedelia, eastern philosophy, game theory, transpersonal psychology–it’s all there. And all interconnected. Behold the future–it’s breathtaking.

Further recommendations to my list are most appreciated!

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, by Laurence Gonzales
The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, by Hunter S. Thompson
Deschooling Society, Ivan Illich
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, by Jared Diamond
The Tao of Physics, by Fritjof Capra
The Turning Point: Science, Society, and the Rising Culture, by Fritjof Capra
Quantum Psychology: How Brain Software Programs You and Your World, by Robert Anton Wilson
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
Breaking Open the Head, by Daniel Pinchbeck
Prometheus Rising, by Robert Anton Wilson
Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern, by Douglas R. Hofstadter
Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins
Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn
From Science to God: A Physicist’s Journey into the Mystery of Consciousness, by Peter Russell
The Global Brain Awakens, by Peter Russell
Science and the Akashic Field: An Integral Theory of Everything, by Ervin Laszlo
The Connectivity Hypothesis: Foundations of an Integral Science of Quantum, Cosmos, Life, and Consciousness, by Ervin Laszlo
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, by Truman Capote

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