STEPS TO AN ECOLOGY OF MIND | GREGORY BATESON | 1972

Steps to an Ecology of Mind is a collection of Gregory Bateson’s short works over his long and varied career. Subject matter includes essays on anthropology, cybernetics, psychiatry, and epistemology. (Wikipedia)

THE BOOK OF DISQUIET | Fernando Passoa | Published posthumously

Pessoa writing style is sometimes regarded as aloof, even emotionless, yet it is also capable of making the reader feel as if the words were specifically designed with them in mind. Pessoa appears to be speaking directly to you in his writing, as if he knows you better than you know yourself. “For those few like me who live without knowing how to have life, what’s left but renunciation as our way and contemplation as our destiny?” (Fernando Pessoa)

WAKING, DREAMING, BEING | EVAN THOMPSON | 2014

This is a ground-breaking philosophical exploration of consciousness and the self as they occur across the states of waking, falling asleep, dreaming, lucid dreaming, deep dreamless sleep, out-of-body experiences and dying. The first-person methodologies of Indian and Asian contemplative traditions such as Yoga, Vedānta and Buddhism generate data that go beyond the reach of the standard scientific approach taken by Western neuroscience and psychology. (University of Notre Dame)

L’ENTRAIDE, L’AUTRE LOI DE LA JUNGLE | P. SERVIGNE, G. CHAPELLE | 2017

Two young french academics step beyond their theories and look at post-modern societal solutions. One of them mutual aid (entraide) being one of the forgotten basic principles of Darwinism principles of evolution. Together they evoke how much the worse/harder the situation become the more life is encompassing this notion of mutual aid/solidarity/togetherness.